The quintessential skills of spying

The art of questioning/probing

The act of spying is something that does not only require stealth and sneakiness. Sometimes, you have to be out there, juicing up some important information that you think would be relevant for this particular case that you are handling. The art of asking questions can be quite tricky since you do not want to be obvious yet you want to lead the person to answering certain questions that you want clarifications. It is necessary to build confidence and not to make a person feel suspicious of your intentions. Learning how to ask questions is one of the skills you have to develop in order to get the intelligence for the case.

Getting the evidences

If it is someone close to you, like your spouse, kids or maybe your parents, it will be a lot easier since you already have proximity to common items that they have such as cellular phones, the closet, the refrigerator maybe or their bags and suitcases. If you notice that they seem to be very protective of their items that they usually are not protective about. When they are away, start by checking their rooms or looking at certain items. If you are observant, you will notice that they develop certain habits in placing items on certain places. Use also their connections such as social media profiles and other communications to gather up evidences.

Creating the scenario

The art of spying is all about building a story that would have been kept a secret from person. You want to know why your kids are going home late the last 3 days and they seem to be not telling you all the details. Your husband suddenly has more “business trips” than the last few years and the business is not really picking up. You are smelling perfume on your husband's clothes every weekend. You have to patch up these details in order to get the facts straight. You need to know obvious and unlikely scenarios. One evidence could lead to another one and that is why it is crucial to develop critical thinking and deductive reasoning.

Surveillance

Tapping into security cameras can be very unlikely for a regular citizen but it is possible to get access to other options like email addresses, or maybe contacts, communications on cellular phones and live voice conversations. There are programs designed to do spying a lot easier.